To the Editor: The UN has released a mid-term report on
progress towards achieving the Millennium Development
Goals (MDG), eight pro-poor goals contained in the
Millennium Declaration of 2000, to be achieved by 2015. ...

Background: Adherence to good methodological quality is necessary to minimise bias in randomised conrolled trials (RCTs). Specific trial characteristics are associated with better trial quality, but no studies to date are ...

Introduction:
There is growing evidence concerning the acceptability and feasibility of home-based HIV testing. However, less is known about the cost-effectiveness of the approach yet it is a critical component to guide ...

Background:
Community based breastfeeding promotion programmes have been shown to be effective in increasing breastfeeding prevalence. However, there is limited data on the cost-effectiveness of these programmes in ...

Setting: South Africa reports more cases of tuberculosis (TB) than any other country, but an up-to-date, precise estimate of the costs associated with diagnosing, treating and preventing TB at the in-patient level is not ...

Background: Community-based peer support has been shown to be effective in improving exclusive breastfeeding rates in a variety of settings.
Methods: We conducted a cost analysis of a community cluster randomised-controlled ...

Background: Retreatment TB (tuberculosis) is a serious category of pulmonary TB with a treatment outcome that could include MDR-TB (multidrug resistant TB). In the Msukaligwa municipality of Mpumalanga Province, South ...

Background: Studies have shown a reduced uptake of contraceptive methods in HIV-positive women of childbearing age, mainly because of unmet needs that may be a result of poor promotion of available methods of contraception, ...

Background. No national South African institution provides a coherent suite of support, available skills and training for clinicians wishing to conduct randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in the public sector. We report ...

Abstract Poverty undermines adherence to tuberculosis treatment. Economic support may both encourage and enable patients to complete treatment. In South Africa, which carries a high burden of tuberculosis, such support ...

Background Poverty undermines the adherence of patients to tuberculosis treatment. A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the extent to which economic support in the form of a voucher ...

Setting. The influence of undergraduate and postgraduate training on health professionals' career choices in favour of rural and underserved communities has not been clearly demonstrated in resourceconstrained settings. ...

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), although regarded as
the best method for assessing the efficacy of an intervention, have several shoncomings and may be impossible to conduct,
for example in the case of harmful risk ...

To the Editor: Should an organisation representing a profession
with a millennia-old tradition of Primum non nocere (First do
no harm) place itself in an alliance that makes it difficult to
speak out against actions ...

This study explored the barriers to a meaningful translation of didactic classroom instruction to clinical practice, using
the shortened dental arch (SDA) concept as a case study. A combination of survey and individual ...

Comprehensive geriatric care should receive nation-wide attention in order to realize its objectives. An analysis of patient problems at the Geriatric Clinic, Tygerberg Hospital and Goodwood Aftercare Hospital is presented. ...

Background: Many mathematical models have investigated the impact of expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART)
on new HIV infections. Comparing results and conclusions across models is challenging because models ...